Christopher Brown
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-Recovered thoughtcasts between members of Kill-Team-Primary during Operation “SKINTRACKER” 22-10 The Beast in the Nothing Cas’ thoughts came flowed like a broken stream choked with drifting debris. It was a little miracle he managed to cast Denton. The greater miracle was how he wasn’t nulled yet. Avo had always thought himself better at breaking things than fixing them. Such a belief remained even after his successful restoration of Lucille. Now, however, things were different. If the…-
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-Aunt Thirteen, First Daughter and Biothaumaturge of the Hundred-Eighter Syndicate 22-9 The Painted Ripples “So, we’re stealin’ tricks from Thousandhand now, huh?” Draus eyed the “Didn’t,” Avo replied, studying his constructs as they faced each other. It took almost no Rend to restore his lost sheath. Comparatively, generating a two-hour conversation between two entities weighing far less than a ton incurred almost ten percent. Kae was right: chronology was an entropy glutton, but the…
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22-8 Deliberation As Algernon spoke, a few trillion threads of moving data speared through Threshold’s innermost servers. From corners of stable existence, certain minds governing the polities of old humanity discussed, debated, and despaired over the state of things. Within the info space, all were classified as Category Black minds designed for denial operations and counter-charter methodologies. Simulations ran with each consideration. Entire event chains simulated and predicted to the best of…
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-High Agnos Jakuta Ajayi 22-7 Matter of Time (II) The Agnos let out a note of frustration. She paused. Avo grunted a light chuff. Kae barely reacted. That was possible. The man’s template was one Avo commonly interfaced with. This time he gave a hissing laugh. And the flechette to the gut finally struck. Avo’s attention zeroed in on the massive spike in thaums as displeasure filled his mind. A moment passed. She mastered herself. Her Soul crackled, but then simmered, rage succumbing…
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-Chief Paladin Naeko on the FATELESS Thoughtcast 22-6 Matter of Time (I) A death and a deluge of curses later, Agnos Kae Kusanade summarized her opinions on Avo’s Frame thusly: Her exasperation was capped off with a squeak as frustration leaked from her Soul. Gathered atop Avo’s haemokinetic tower overlooking the enclave, the members of the cadre were split between watching for any encroaching threats while also anticipating their personal upgrades. Already, however, did they find themselves…
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-Containment Report of 22-5 Reorientation “Well, that shit escalated pretty fucking quickly.” The understatement left Chambers alongside a rasp of air. The man was drinking a bubbling greenish substance under the cool shade of branching foliage. He claimed it was some kind of mushroom-fermented liquor, but Avo was still ghoul enough to sniff the bitter-acidic tang of Chamber’s adrenaline-soaked muscles. Most of the cadre were scattered about the deceased Fallwalker’s estate. Yakozitrin’s…
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-Augur Nyretei Yaeglis of Sanctus 22-4 Among Giants There were levels to power. There were gods beyond gods. And then there were beings like Samir Naeko–a man bearing implacable power, seemingly capable of laying his hand upon all of New Vultun at once. Avo beheld the devastation across his ever-spreading plague of splinters. He watched through cog-feeds on the ground, from drones crossing the sky, internalized damage reports flicking through mechanized combat platforms, and tasted the Rend…
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-Osjane Thousand to Samir Naeko (Circa 32 Post Godsfall) 22-3 Peace Broken A layer above, in the Sanctus-majority district of Madruss, a young slave, left unfed in her cage for days, succumbed to hunger and took a bite from the dead puppy her master caught her playing with a week ago. As she sank the three unrotted teeth she had remaining into the flea-infested carcass, a supple retribution followed. Eighty kilometers away in a Syndicate bar, the girl’s master died screaming as she was bitten in half…
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22-2 Inheritor of Shadows (II) Maru’s words made Naeko drop the mangled boulder of disfigured corpses he was about to cast over the district’s edge into the Maw. He’d been fast to react when the Nether fell. Fast as he could. But enough had died regardless, and more than a few outbreaks had to be suppressed. Then there were the ones that kept trying to enact violence. Even when his palm was down. Even when his Heaven seized the city. They became his offering to the Maw. Food for the nothing. A…
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-Lesser Acolyte of Noloth showing Jaus Avandaer and Zein Thousandhand the Heart of Noloth 22-1 Inheritor of Shadows (I) The darkness seized them all in its ravenous embrace. Though capable of twisting chronology to its whims against Avo, the rules of asymmetry were now turned against the dragon, its emanations of light enwreathing struggling desperately to hold the lashing shadows at bay. Tongues and tendrils drained projected manifestations and recalled miracles. Undulations of shifting force shifted…
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